• this@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    Probably a security update to try and keep it from being part of a botnet maybe? What would work better though is never connecting it to a network or even better, just don’t make it smart for no dam reason, lol.

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    3 hours ago

    I have a friend who’s really big in to smoking meats for hours and hours and days at a time. He loves this kind of thing because he can monitor the smoker without physically being in front of it.

    I think he’s crazy af for involving the damned internet in it but I guess it is what it is when you’re “cooking” something for 9 hours.

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    3 hours ago

    But supposed they invented a whole new kind of meat and your grill wasn’t ready to deal with it? How would you feel then? Pretty darn silly, that’s how!

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    Realistically they probably didn’t use the traeger until the 4th, so they were about a year behind on “updates”

    Unless you’re my dad, then he finds any excuses he can to use his traeger. The thing can smoke a damn good brisket, software updates be damned!

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    6 hours ago

    I wouldn’t use it, but if you want one with software then there’s nothing wrong with it updating.

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      4 hours ago

      Pay me? Fuck yes, I’ll rip that crap out and replace it with a couple of relays or maybe get fancy and arduino -> home assistant.

      I’m betting that someone pay a LOT extra to get that garbage though.

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      5 hours ago

      Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don’t have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.

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        My dad’s smoker is also able to set key frames so you can have it ramp up or down in temp at various points while cooking. And it can either be set to change temp at a time or when one of the probes reaches a certain temp. Plus he really likes being able to monitor it from his iPad, especially in the winter or if he has to run up to the store real quick.

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      5 hours ago

      I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My grill is a disposable item I buy one every four or five years.

      None of my go to devices are internet connected. Not my TV screens. Not my toothbrush. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.

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        5 hours ago

        Just out of curiosity… What are you doing to your grill that you need a new one every few years? Mine is prob. 10 years old and still no reason in sight to replace it.

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          As someone in the PNW, there is not much you can do if you don’t bring the dang thing indoors that won’t leave the thing a pile of rust in 5 years.

          I am trying with a specific form of stainless to see if it makes a difference.

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            4 hours ago

            I see, yes i also have a stainless steel one, which is outdoors all year. Good luck, i suspect you might have just solved your “grill consumption” :)

    • tankfox@midwest.social
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      6 hours ago

      I have a Masterbuilt that has optional firmware updates sometimes, nothing mandatory and certainly nothing automatic. It’s a gravity fed charcoal grill that works like a computer controlled forced air rocket stove. Gets up to 700 degs from cold in 10 mins if I want or hold 225 for the rest of time as long as I keep feeding charcoal into the hopper and emptying the ash bin. The computer is adding actual value.

      No soggy pellets, no weird feeding issues, the biggest problem I’ve had with it was the hatch sensors all going out over time, but once I jumped the circuit past them it worked fine again to this very day, going on six years now.

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      7 hours ago

      Yesterday my WIFI air purifier crashed after changing the speed with the app and turned itself off and even caused the Ethernet switch to crash and hang.

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    7 hours ago

    There was a silly little movie in the 80’s called “Maximum Overdrive”, written and directed by Stephen King.

    In it Aliens somehow cause machines to ‘turn’ on human beings and attack us.

    They could remake that movie now but instead of Aliens causing the machines to attack people, it could be malicious ‘hackers’ that do it, and it would be more believable that the original film.

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      The plot that kicks off Battlestar Galactica (2004) happens because pretty much everything uses wireless communications, including most systems within the space ships

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        7 hours ago

        You can’t really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn’t have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them.

        In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.

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        The original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King’s cocaine fever dreams iirc.